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Happy Fasnacht Day! [by Laura Orem]
The Fight between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on panel, 1559 It's Shrove Tuesday, and while New Orleans may have Mardi Gras, we here in Pennsylvania Dutch Country have Fasnacht Day.…
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Poet Spotlight: Veronica Golos [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Veronica Golos is the author of three poetry books, Rootwork: Lost Writings of John Brown and Mary Day Brown (3: A Taos Press), Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the 2011…
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Poet Spotlight: Karla Kelsey [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Karla Kelsey is the author of four books: Knowledge Forms the Aviary; Iteration Nets; A Conjoined Book; and Of Sphere. With Aaron McCollough she edits Split-Level Texts and with Poupeh Missaghi she edits Matters…
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On James Merrill’s Birthday: “Grass” [with a note by Stephen Yenser]
GRASS The river irisesDraw themselves in. Enough to have seenTheir day. The arras Also of evening drawn,We light up betweenEarth and VenusOn the courthouse lawn, Kept by this cheerfulInch of greenAnd ten more years—fifteen?—From disappearing.…
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Poet Spotlight: Vi Khi Nao [by Kristina Marie Darling]
VI KHI NAO is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018) and Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016,…
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Poet Spotlight: Allison Benis White [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Allison Benis White is the author of Please Bury Me in This, winner of the Rilke Prize and a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, and Small Porcelain Head, selected by Claudia Rankine…
